Eva Jane Cooper

Tuesday, December 4, 1973, McCreary County Record
Submitted by: Lisa

Mrs. Eva Jane Cooper, 69, Pine Knot, died November 25, at Scott County Hospital in Tennessee. Her husband, Shird Cooper, preceded her in death./  The daughter of the late Mose Watters and Melinda Winchester Watters, she was born in McCreary County on August 8, 1904. She was a life-long resident of the county, a housewife and a member of the Church of God./  Surviving are five sons, Castle Cooper of Muncie, Ind., Buddy Cooper, Delbert Cooper, Thurman Cooper and J.B. Cooper, all of Pine Knot; three daughters, Mrs. Ruby Kelly of Pine Knot, Mrs. Vennie Watson of Oneida, Tenn., and Mrs. Mary Jo Slaven of Jamestown, Tenn.; two step-children, Mrs. Ninnie Pennington of Oneida, Tenn., and Willie Cooper of Jamestown, Tenn.; two brothers, Sidney Watters of Monticello and Henley Watters of Whitley City; 70 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren./  The Rev. Rudolph Couch conducted funeral services November 28 at South Pine Knot Church of God with burial in Pine Knot Cemetery./  Serving as pallbearers were J.B. Bilbrey, John Pyle, Coy Taylor, Phillip Kidd and Bobby Wilson./  Hickman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.